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The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone

by Thomas A. Watson

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  1. 1Biography of Thomas A. Watson
  2. 2The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone
  3. 3The Williams’ Electrical Workshop
  4. 4Studies and Experiments
  5. 5Experience With Inventors
  6. 6The “Harmonic Telegraph”
  7. 7Bell’s Theory of Transmitting Speech
  8. 8June 2, 1875
  9. 9The Telephone Born
  10. 10Realization
  11. 11The First Telephone Line
  12. 12Mr. Watson Heard the First Sentence Ever Spoken Over the Telephone
  13. 13The Centennial Exposition
  14. 14Experimentation
  15. 15“Talking” From Boston to Cambridge
  16. 16Our Many Visitors
  17. 17A “Wireless Telephone”
  18. 18Telephone Installations
  19. 19Financial Problems
  20. 20Leasing Instruments a Far-Sighted Policy
  21. 21Telephone Lectures
  22. 22My Telephone Entertainers
  23. 23First Sound-Proof Booth
  24. 24“The Supposititious Mr. Watson”
  25. 25An Exhibition in Lawrence
  26. 26Waiting for Watson
  27. 27Waiting for Watson
  28. 28My Last Public Appearance
  29. 29The “Gower-Bell” Telephone
  30. 30Developing a Calling Apparatus; the Watson “Buzzer”
  31. 31“Williams’ Coffins”
  32. 32The Blake Transmitter
  33. 33Wire Troubles
  34. 34Memories
  35. 35The Coming of Theodore N. Vail
  36. 36The Bell System
  37. 37Turning to Other Activities
  38. 38My Greatest Pride
  39. 39Early Chronology of the Telephone
  40. 40Telephone Milestones
  41. 41Bell System Statistics

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